CNC Fidget Spinner V5 - first post

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Hey guys! I’ve had my Shapeoko 3 for a while now so I thought I’d show off a day project that was a lot of fun to make and play with.

I came across these guys while browsing youtube and thought I’d give it a try. Hopefully you guys like it!

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The spinner is made with HDPE and some ABEC bearings I stole off of some old roller blades I didn’t want anymore. All in all the project took around 8 hours of testing to get to where it is now.(mostly because I’m a complete noob when it comes to cnc.)

The first prototype was made out of mdf because it was what I had at hand and the one you see now is made of HDPE kindly donated by my last customer.

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As you can see the little relief circles were removed because they removed too much strength but could possibly be added back should you want to using a stronger material.

Here is the final product:

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I’m super happy with the results and hope you guys like it as much as I did.

Attached below is the finished files designed for standard skateboard bearings.

spinner v5.c2d (121.8 KB)

spinner v5.egc (124.1 KB)

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Sweet! Looks a lot like what I ended up with here: Spinner Fidget in Walnut, except my cuts failed on my center caps and I never re-made them. Did you cut those caps with the CNC?

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Yup! if you look at the files below, the caps are included. They should fit any skateboard type bearing. I’m planning on making a little fixture for mass producing these for some friends of mine, but before then I’m going to make a simple jig to hold the caps while I machine their faces. Updates to come!